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See also the classic:

Feld, Scott L. 1991. "Why your friends have more friends than you do." 
American Journal of Sociology 96:1464-1477.

Further, see recent power law hypotheses that network growth occurs 
because  recent arrivals to a network select, at random, a member of the 
existing population, and that further, they are directed to a neighbor 
of this choice. These neighbors have a degree distribution proportional 
to the distribution of degrees in the network, that is, most have few 
degrees while a minority have very many. Which leads to the same point 
that Feld made.

All this explains why there are all these parties that I never get 
invited to.

Dan Novak wrote:
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